Bewuifvan
Bellefonte, Pa, November 6, 1914.
WEAT TBEY LON'T HEAR
The girl who likes to talk dropped
the slice of lemon into her tea, medi-
tatively. “It’s perfectly wonderful,”
she mused, “how deaf a ‘man grows
after he's married.
“When he’s just engaged,” she went
on, “he can hear his adored one’s faint-
st whisper in a boiler’ factory going
full blast, but afterward—honest, I've
seen women who had to chloroform
their husbands and tie them hand and
foot before they could get the wretches
to listen to something that it was ab-
solutely necessary to tell them!
“There’s my brother Edgar. Now,
he’s a perfectly good brother and al-
‘ways bought me exactly as fine candy
and flowers as he gave the girl he
happened to be in love with, and nat-
urally I think a great deal of him. I
never saw anything like the devotion
he bestowed upon Mae while they
were engaged. It was what you might
call oppressive to the innocent by-
stander.
“If Mae was at one end of a ball
room 70 feet long and Edgar at the
‘other surrounded by a cordon of men
and Mae chanced to whisper to her
partner that she believed she had
dropped her handkerchief, I give you
my word that Edgar would plunge
through that mass of men instantly as
though he were the locomotive draw-
ing the 18-hour special to New York.
And before Mae’s partner had time to
stoop Edgar had recovered the hand-
jkerchief, presented it to her and anx-
Jously inquired whether there wasn’t
‘something else he could do for her, all
before the dead and wounded that
marked the tumultuous progress
through the ballroom had had time to
pick themselves up and dust them-
selves off!
“I began to believe that Edgar suf-
ferred from what is known as acute
hearing. He always was leaning anx-
ously forward and saying: ‘Yes—what
did you say, dear? Afraid he might
miss something, you see. Well, they've
been married two years now, and he's
Just as much in love with her as ever,
‘but I'll tell you what happens when it
is necessary for Mae to communicate
something to Edgar. The scene is after
{dinner and Edgar has the newspaper.
Says Mae:
‘“‘Edgar!” Then she repeats the
‘name three times. Then from behind
he paper comes a sound like ‘H'm?’
ays Mae, ‘Edgar, the queerest thing
Bappened today. The man who was to
ring your new suit of clothes deliv-
ered a pound of prunes instead!’
"Thrilling silence from behind the pa-
er. Mae takes a deep breath. ‘Ed-
Pe she says, ‘the tailor’s man left a
[pound of prunes today instead of your
Dew suit!’
“‘Jemima!’ explodes Edgar at this
nstant, ‘listen to this.” Then he reads
‘something aloud from his newspaper.
! “Half an hour later when he goes to
ut on his new suit and finds a pound
of prunes instead he raves and wants
fto know why on earth Mae couldn't
ake enough interest in his affairs to
tell him!
“Why, there’s a deep ocean rumble
{all over this broad land of wives tell
ing things to their husbands who aren’t
listening. It’s a substratum on which
are built all the conversations and all
he daily deeds that are done! Hus:
bands are being told that the gas bil’
is overdue and that it looks as though
Willie was coming down with the
jmeasles; that mother is coming for
a six months’ visit and that the new
jvelvet gown from Celeste is ruined,
‘that the cook has left, or mice have
‘eaten the best bindings on the library
jshelves, or the White's dinner party
‘is postponed, or that Uncle Hiram had
a stroke of paralysis yesterday—and
do they hear? They do not.
| “They go blissfully on in their calm,
peaceful, unlistening mental attitude,
tand let the dear creatures babble fran
tically, imploringly, beseechingly.
“The only time they came out of
ytheir trance is when they find the gas
man has turned off the gas or discover
mother’s trunk in the guest room and
[then they demand to be told why. The
wise wife does not burst into tears
and insist that she has already told
‘her husband 16 times—she says meek-
ly ‘Yes, dear, it is my fault, and 1
Jshould have informed you’—and then
goes downtown and charges something
perfectly awful on that month’s dry
oods bill in revenge. He doesn’t know
it’s revenge—he calls it extravagance,
but that gives him something to talk
about and keeps him amused, so it's
for his own good. :
“Do you know what I'm going to do
jwhen I get a husband?” asked the girl
ho likes to talk. “When I have some-
ing to tell him I'm going to send him
telegrams, collect, to his office!”
Philippine Trade Schools.
In keeping with the program of the
foureau of education to encourage pu-
ils and teachers to produce articles
f commercial value, the division su-
rintendent of schools at Albay, in
he Philippines, has requested the
eachers to encourage the pupils to
pend their vacation in the household
ndustry centers established in their
‘towns. According to the Daily Con-
ular Report, the Leyte trade school
s wrested from Iloilo the distinction
of being the most advanced trade
chool in the bureau of education.
ork in the Leyte trade school dur
ing the past year amounted to $11,142,
lout of which $2,572 was paid to the
fpupils for their work. One pupil
learned $113 during the year, and two
other boys earned $76 each.
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WANDERING ISLANDS.
Those of the Rio Grande Made Trouble
For Us With Mexico.
The wandering islands of the Rio
Grande in their migrations from side
to side of the water course have caused
years of diplomatic correspondence and ' 4
discussion between the United States | C2Urt attendant said reprovingly on
and Mexico. The refusal of certain
small bodies of land to remain perma-
nently attached to one or the other of
the river's banks deprived them of a
fixed legal status as either Mexican or
American territory and brought about
their participation in many illegal ad-
ventures, which in turn led to misun-
derstandings between the two coun-
tries.
In no river is spirit more evident '
than in the Rio Grande. Along its
sinuous route below Rio Grande City
it pushes its way through miles of
level sand in its final reach for the !
1f, twi 1 ;
guir, twisting and donbling upon itself ; was summoned to Versailles to play
like a sea serpent. In 1848 it was fix-
ed upon as the boundary line between
the United States and Mexico. The
boundary was to be the “middle of the
river, following the deepest channel.”
But the river possessed characteristics
that had not impressed themselves
upon the framers of the convention as !
possible causes of friction between the
people living along its banks.
dition to its eroding power, exercised
through long months of low and mean
water, it could during flood periods
leap with torrential force across a
narrow neck of land at the base of one
of its long loops and cut for itself a
new channel.
action of the river Texas soil would
casions a plantation occupied by jacals
and Mexican citizens would overnight
find itself a part of Texas.
An example will serve to show both
the extraordinary actions of the river
and the difficulties in the way of any
satisfactory adjustment of conflicting
interests. A certain Josiah Turner be-
gan to farm the Galveston ranch, on
the Texas bank. Eight years later he
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~ PEPPERY COMPOSERS.
Masters of Music Who Had Nice Tem-
pers of Their Own.
The conditions under which we live
: and work have made the American peo-
ple a nation of pill users. Naturally
; many pills are put on the market that
i.are simply made to meet the require-
Even in the presence of his royal | ments of those to whom any pill is a pill,
* pupils Handel would sometimes fly into °
In ad- |
Through such avulsive |
most violent passions.
“You forget yourself, Mr. Handel,” a
one such occasion. “You should show
more respect to her royal highness!”
“Royal highness!” snorted the musi-
cian contemptuously. “Bah! De re-
spect is due to me! There are many
brincesses, but only one Handel!”
On another occasion, when George IL.
sent a message summoning him to an
interview, he returned this answer:
“Dell his bajesty he bust waid. By
tibe is bore imbordant dan his!”
Viotti, the famous French musician
i of the eighteenth century, had an
equal contempt for royalty and an ex-
aggerated - opinion of himself, as the
following story shows: One day he
before Marie Antoinette and the court.
The performance had begun; the open-
ing bars of his favorite solo command-
ed breathless attention. when a cry
was heard:
“Place for Mgr. the Comte d’Artois!”
At the sound Viotti immediately
ceased piaying, cast an indignant
glance at his audience, placed his vio-
lin under his arm and walked out of
the place.
When Marie Antoinette once inquir-
ed of Gluck how his new opera was
progressing he answered, “Madame, it
is nearly finished, and I assure you it
will be superb,” a conceit which was
rivaled by that of Meyerbeer, who,
sometimes become Mexican, and on oc- | When a friend declared that if any.
; on his head. answered,
thing better could be composed than
one of his rival operas he would dance
“If that is so
I should advise you to start practicing
at once. for I have just commenced
the fourth act of “The Huguenots!’ ”
Even Haydn. usually the most mod-
est of men, showed at times that he
; had as good an opinion of his own
was surprised when 221 acres of Mexi-
can land came across the river and at-
tached itself to his ranch. An arrange-
ment was effected by which he became
the owner of this land. Six years later
the river cut off a piece of Mr. Tur-
ner’s land and took it to Mexico. Twen-
ty-one years later the river made up its |
mind to repay the farmer for what it
had taken from him and so carried
back into Texas a piece of land far
larger than the tract originally lost.
The Mexican owners claimed posses-
sion, and a new convention dealing
with the questions under dispute be-
came necessary.
Brigadier General Anson Mills, U.
8. A, appointed to represent the United
States. recommended that the “cutoffs”
be forever elimindted from the hound-
ary line, all those occurring on the
right of the river to pass to the juris-
diction of Mexico, those on the left to
that of Texas. The inhabitants, if any,
should retain their citizenship in the
country from which they had been so
suddenly and violently detached, or
they might acquire the nationality of
the country to which they were now
attached. Any cutoff exceeding 650
acres in area and having a population
of over 200 souls was not to be consid-
ered a banco, and the old bed of the
river should remain the boundary. A
convention embodying his recommenda-
tions was finally ratified by both coun- '
tries. Thus the great turbid, silt bear-
ing river is left to pursue its way un-
trammeled, but the terrors so long syn- ,
onymous with its name have through
the operation of this equable arrange-
ment become a part of the storied, ro-
mantic past.
Corpuscles In Normal Blood.
Normally there are approximately
5,000,000 red blood corpuscles in the
cubic millimeter.
merits as any of his admirers. On
one occasion, when a friend said to
him of his “Salomon” symphonies,
“Sir, I am strongly of opinion that you
will never surpass these wonderful
symphonies.” he answered placidly,
“No; I never mean to attempt the im-
possible!”
CURIOUS CARD TRICK.
It Deals With. Odd Numbers, and the
Explanation Is a Mystery.
There is a puzzle which may be per-
formed with any odd number of ob-
jects, playing cards being usually em-
ployed, and which any one can do, but
no one seems able to explain the rea-
son for it. Let us suppose the number
selected to be twenty-seven cards, al-
though fifteen or twenty-one would do
just as well. :
After having them shuffled hold them
in the left hand face upward and then
deal them face upward one at a time
in three piles so that the fourth card
comes on the first and the fifth on the
top of the second and so on until you
have three piles of nine cards each.
Request any person who is watching
you to make a silent note of any card
he pleases, and when you have finished
dealing to tell you in which pile the
card lies. By picking up the three piles
again one at a time as before, the not-
ed card will reappear. Ask in which
pile it came that time and place that
pile in the middle as before.
Upon dealing the cards into three
piles for the third time note carefully
the card that comes in the middle of
each pile. With twenty-seven there
will be nine in each pile and the fifth
will be the middle card. Now, when
i the person who selected the card names
' the pile in which his card comes you
The number is tem- |
porarily diminished during fatigue and '
after the ingestion of much fluid. Fast-
ing and profuse sweating increase the
number of red blood cells by concen-
trating the blood. In high altitudes
the number is also increased. There
are 5,000 to 10,000 white cells in the
cubic millimeter, the ratio of white to
red cells being about 1 to 500. In
health the blood amounts to ‘about one-
thirteenth of the body weight.
New Zealand Oddities.
The crow in New Zealand strikes as
sweet note as any head in the wood- |,
land. The robin has no song and no
red breast. The native hen is the great-
est of rat killers. There is a caterpillar
which turns into a plant. These and
some other productions of nature have
done for New Zealand what the kanga-
roo and the ornithorhynchus have done
for Australia—given it the suggestion
of oddity and the marvelous.
Just Practicing.
“Son, you mustn't carve your name |
on the piano. Another such episode
and I'll punish you severely.”
“Dad, how can you expect me to '
carve my name in the temple of fame
when you won't let me get any prace
tice?”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Musical Term.
ater you know anything about muv-
Cc 29
“Yes,” replied Mr. Growcher.
“What's a rest?’
“The time it takes ’em to change the
record in the music machine next
door.”—Washington Star.
That's Different.
Mrs, Exe (complainingly)—Such serv-
ants as we get nowadays! Mrs. Wye
—Well, one can’t expect all the virtues
for $4 a week. you know. Mrs. Exe—
But I pay $5.—Boston Transcript.
In the battle of life we cannot hire
a substitute.—Harold Bell Wright.
will know it was the middle card of
that pile. With this knowledge in your
possession you can finish the trick in
any manner you please.
This is only a statement of results,
but what is the explanation or reason
for it? What is the rule that makes it
always come out right, regardless of
the number of objects used, so that it
is odd?—New York Suan
ee emma: rei.
The Box Was Good.
Wife—Charles, wasn’t that a good
box of cigars 1 gave you on your
birthday? Husband—I never saw a
better box, my dear.
Flour and Feed.
(CURTIS Y. WAGNER,
BROCKERHOFF MILLS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Manufacturer, Wholesaler and Retailer of
Roller Flour
Feed
Corn Meal
and Grain
Manufactures and has on hendat at fi times the
following brands of high grade fl
WHITE STAR
OUR BEST
HIGH GRADE
VICTORY PATENT
FANCY PATENT
place in the county where that extraor-
y fine grade of spring wheat Patent Flour
SPRAY
can be secured. Also International Stock Food
and feed of all kinds.
All kinds of Grain bought at
xchanged for wheat. ug the office , Flour
The onl;
dinari
OFFICE and STORE—BISHOP STREET,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
7-19 MILL AT ROOPBSURG.
i
! and one pill as good as another. But
there is progress even in pills, and at the
front of this pill progress stand Dr.
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, a scientific
medicine which relieves constipation, and
does not beget the pill habit.
Coal and Wood.
A. G. Morris, Jr.
DEALER IN HIGH GRADE
ANTHRACITE, BITUMINOUS
AND CANNEL
COAL
Wood, Grain, Hay, Straw
and Sand.
ALSO
FEDERAL
STOCK AND POULTRY FOOD
BOTH ’PHONES.
LIME AND LIMESTONE.
Me TO LOAN on good security and
Meat Market.
(Get the Best Meats.
You save nothin
by buying poor, thin
or gristly meats. i
use onl
LARGEST AND FATTEST CATTLE
and supply my customers with the fresh-
est, choicest, Dest blood and muscle mak-
— DRESSED POULTRY —
Game in season, and any kinds of good
meats you want.
TRY MY SHOP.
P. L. BEEZER,
High Street. 34-34-1y. Bellefonte, Pa.
Restaurant.
ESTAURANT.
Bellefonte now has a First-Class Res-
taurant where
Meals are Served at All Hours
Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Oysters on the
half shell or in any style yd Sa
wiches, Soups, and an; eatable, can
be had in a few minutes any time. In
dition I have a complete plant prepared to
furnish Soft Dri in bottles such as
POPS,
SODAS,
SARSAPARILLA,
SELTZER SYPHONS, ETC.,
for pic-nics, families and the public gener-
ally all of which are manufactured out of
the purest syrups and properly carbonated.
C. MOERSCHBACHER,
50-32-1y. High St., Bellefonte, Pa.
Money to Loan.
houses to rent.
J. M. KEICHLINE,
Attorney at. Law.
51-14-1v. te Pa.
LIME.
Lime and Limestone for all purposes.
H-O Lime Put up in 40 to 50 Pound Paper Bags.
LIME.
58-28-6m
for use with drills or spreader, is the econom-
ical form most careful farmers are using.
High Calcium Central Pennsylvania I.ime
American Lime & Stone Company.,
Operations at Bellefonte, Tyrone, Union Furnace, Frankstown and Spring Meadows, Pa
General Office: TYRONE, PA.
Groceries.
Groceries.
Fruits, Confectionery and
FINE GROCERIES.
The Finest Meadow Gold Brand
Creamery Butter at 40c per pound.
Large Spanish and home-grown
Onions, sound and in good order.
If you want a fine, sweet, juicy
Ham, let us supply you.
Oranges are a standard fruit for
all seasons. The goods we are now
receiving are the California Valen- .
cia variety, of excellent quality at
25¢, 30c and 40c per dozen. Extra
fancy large fruit at 50c and 60c per
dozen.
Bananas are also an all-year-
round fruit. We give careful atten-
tion to having nice, clean yellow
fruit. When you want some nice,
clean fruit send us your order and
you will be pleased.
Our Olives are large and of the
very finest flavor at 40c per quart.
Burnett's and Knight's Extracts,
Crosse & Blackwell's Table Vinegar
in bottles. Durkee’s Salad Dressing.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
57.1 -- -
Bush House Block, - .
Farm Implements.
Buy some of our fine cheese and
compare it with other goods.
We have a fine grade of Olive
Oil in tins of half pint, one pintand
one quart size. But none of the oils
in tin will compare in quality or
body with our high grade Rae’s
Lucca Oil which comes only in
glass of three sizes, at 30c, 50c and
90c per bottle. :
STIILL IN THE PRESERVING SEASON.
We sell pure Spices by weight
only—we keep no package Spices.
We have a full strength pure Cider
Vinegar and a White Vinegar of
high grade, each one at 25c per
gallon. You can depend on these
goods being just what you want.
New Evaporated Peaches, Apri-
cots and prunes are just now ar-
riving. We are up-to-date on all
these items. Let us have your
orders.
Bellefonte, Pa. :
Farmers’ Supply Store,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
look it over—oprice is right.
for all time, force and lift easy.
The Cow and Hen are Money Earners.
The American Cow and Hen are money earners and the question is all in
the balanced rations, that are required to bring out their productiveness.
FEED THE COW ENSILAGE
and use the Blizzard Ensilage Cutter for Silo filling. All Experimental Sta-
tions use the Blizzard. Easy to operate and has a self feeder, making it ab-
solutely safe for the operator. We have one here on our floor. Come in and
THE NEW IDEA MANURE SPREADER
is second to none and will do the work to your satisfaction. Wiard Walking
and Sulkey Plows, Spring and Spike tooth Harrows, Single and Double Disc
Harrows, Steel Land Rollers, Grain Drills, Galvanized Water Troughs, Cast
Iron Hog Troughs—rat proof, any length, Galvanized Chain Pumps—good
Running Pumps carried in stock—put in
the well and guaranteed. Cutting Boxes and Corn Crackers, Corn Shellers—
both hand and power, Poultry Netting, Poul
Scrap, Alfalfa Meal and Charcoal—everything to make the hen profitable.
BROOKVILLE WAGONS A SPECIALTY. A
Ladders—both single and extension, up to 40 feet J for apple) picking. All kind of field SEED * =
at the right price and will stand up to the State's Test.
carry 5 to 6 grades in stock to suit all customers and at prices as low as any tramp agent
offers you as he says at cost. Look out Iokiout foriHie: the runners who are selling at cost.
JOHN G. T
Both Phones.
Grit, Oyster Shells, Beef
n't worry about Fertilizers, we |
DUBBS,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
ER,
Attorneys-at-Law.
KLINE INE WOODRING=Aliomey. at- Law Belle
Pa, Practicesin all courts
fous 18Crider’s Exchange. 51-1-ly.
B. SPANGLER.-Attorney-at-Law. Practices
in inal the Courts. Consultetion | in English
rman Xchange.
Bellefonte, Pa. ee in Crijers 40-;
S. TAYLOR—Attorney and Co llor
ba. Se ar CPi i
on! a,
tended to promotiy. ol legal a
J H.
of le; usin
to promptly. ne oa) business. German
M. JEL IND Atomev. at-Law. Practices
in all the co Consultatio; English
and A an Office south ion Jb Enka
All professional bs -
Al prof i usiness will receive proln Eye ous.
KENNEDY JOHNSTON-—Attorney-at-law,
Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt attention en all
legal business entrusted
ces—No. 5 East Hieh street.
G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law. Consul-
tation in English and Germ: Office
in Crider’s aes Bellefonte. 58-5
Physicians.
to his care. Offi-
57-44.
ERS
GLENN, M. D., Ph d
State ate College, C Centre ins Se
W?*
Dentists.
R. J. BL CARD, D. D. S,, office next door to
net Fart hE ada iniste: d for r painless extract-
eeth. Superi
eth, 8 or Crown and Bridge work, Prices
Dentist, Office in
D5 H, ” al: Arcade Bo 2]
onte, Pa. All mod-
ours om Disha appliances Has had
Jease perience LA A; work of Superior quality
Plumbing.
Good Health
and
Good Plumbing
GO TOGETHER.
When you have dripping steam pi , leaky
water- fixtures, foul sewe ot pes escaping
as, you can’t have good Health, TH The air you
reathe is poisonous; your system becomes
poisoned and invalidism is sure to come.
SANITARY PLUMBING
is the kind we do. It’s the only kind you
ought to have. Wedon’t trust this ak to
ys. Our workmen are Skilled Mechanics,
no better anywhere. Our
Material and
Fixtures are the Best
Not a cheap or inferior ariicle | in our entire
establishment. And with good work and the
finest material, our
Prices are lower
than many who give you r, unsanitary
work and the owes de o
the Best Work t 21a Sssnngs. Vor
Archibald “Allison,
Opposite Bush House -
56-14-1v.
Bellefonte, Pa
Insurance.
JOHN F. GRAY & SON,
(Successor to Grant Hoover)
Fire,
Life
"Accident Insurance.
Tis Agency represents the largest Fi
Insurance ro in the World. re
—— NO ASSESSMENTS —
Do not fail to give us a call before insuring your
Life or Property as we are in position to write
large lines at any time.
Office in Crider’s Stone Building,
43-18-1y. BELLEFONTE, PA.
The Preferred
Accident
Insurance
THE $5,000 TRAVEL POLICY
BENEFITS:
%3.000 death b; accident;
5,000 joss of Eh fen is
,000 loss of both han
2,500 loss of either hand,
2,000 loss of either foot,
630 loss of one eve
25 per week, total disability,
(limit 52 weeks)
10 per week, partial disability,
(limit 26 weeks)
PREMIUM $12 PER YEAR,
pavable quarterly if desired.
alae or smaller amounts in proportion
Any person, male or female, eng in
preferred occupation, inclu house
eeping, over eighteen years of age
good moral and physical condition mag
nsure under this poiicv.
Fire Insurance
a invite your i attention to my Fire Insu1
ce Agency, the strongest and Most Ex
Pe ine of Solid Companies represen!
ed by any agency in Cen Central Pennsylvan:T :
H. E. FENLON,
50-21. Agent, Bellefonte, Pa
Fine Job Printing.
FINE JOB PRINTING
0—A SPECIALTY—o0
WATCHMAN OFFICE.
the finest
BOOK WORK,
cannot do inthe most satis-
A and at Prices consist-
There is no eof orl from the
pest ** v3
fact
« ent with the class of work. Call onor
comr with this office’